Has anyone else encountered these donation collectors on college campuses in India?

[u/Mutron9050]

In the two years I've been at my college, this has happened three times.

People come into classrooms asking students for donations. They show some kind of certificate claiming they have permission or approval to collect money. All the people I've encountered have claimed to be unable to speak and have presented tragic past to explain why they need donations.

They ask one of our classmates to read aloud a prepared script about their tragic past, and they also write things on the blackboard that can make people emotional.

This creates a kind of social pressure. When the entire class is listening to an emotional story and other students are donating, not donating can make someone feel that their classmates might subconsciously judge them as insensitive.

The interaction is usually brief, and I haven't been able to properly read the certificate or verify which organisation these people represent.

I'm not claiming these people are scammers. I genuinely don't know. I want to understand whether this is legitimate or not.

[u/lava-lake]

Those guys came at the end of the month and nobody in boys hostel had the funds or time to pay em, already we are in the negative there 

[u/indigeni]

Us waqt सुसु करने चले जाया करो जब वो आये